Freedom108.com review of sales process

When I recently saw a commercial for Freedom108.com I was surprised to see of some of the testimonials which seemed to potentially violate the FTC’s recent No Safe Harbor guidelines. Especially since the company behind the ads – Premier Team International does have an “A” rating with the BBB (I’ve explained many times before why BBB ratings in the “work at home/home business” field are practically worthless). Of course I’m not an attorney, so of course this is just a layman’s reading of the guidelines, but here’s how David Vladeck, the Directory of the FTC’s Bureau has explained these guidelines:of what the most recent guidelines says:

“…the use of a disclaimer such as “results not typical” is no longer a safe harbor for the claims made in testimonials. Third, while you may use atypical or best-case testimonials, if you do, you should clearly and conspicuously disclose the generally expected results consumers can expect in the depicted circumstances. Of course, the best practice, and the less risky practice, is to use testimonials that actually reflect what your product or services is likely to deliver. In other words, rather than run ads that give with one hand but take away with the other, it would be better for your ads to give a clear picture of the results a consumer will actually get.”

The following video takes a look at Freedom108’s sales process in light of that statement as well as a $39.95 charge which I found suprisingly hard to find:

Many of you may be surprised to find out about the $39.95 from Freedom108.com, especially when they have a section on part 2 of the order process that says:

Pay Nothing More

And they have a section on part 3 of the order process (the page where you enter your credit card information) that says the following:

Pay Nothing More CC Info

You’ll notice that none of them mention the $39.95 charge found on the terms and conditions page – even though they have PLENTY OF ROOM to disclose it on those pages.

And if you have no idea what $39.95 charge I’m talking about, it was covered in the above video…and here’s a screenshot showing the wording of that charge:

Terms & Conditions $39.95 Charge

And if you watched the video you’ll see what a hard time I had even getting to the terms and conditions page.

There are some other minor issues I have with this sales process, but I felt those were serious enough to warrant calling them to your attention.

There are hundreds – if not thousands – of sites very similar to Freedom108.com and it would be impossible to analyze all of them here, but the ones I know about are as follows: